IBM Cognos Metrics Manager
Features and Benefits
Intuitive view of your business
- Three-and five-state status indicators and plan vs. actual data reveal progress against targets.
- View metrics individually, by owner, or by project.
- Flexible user environment: view scorecards over the Web or in PDF.
- Metrics watch list: users can be notified by email or on their PDA when a metric changes status or value.
- Personalized column display: show or hide information and add custom benchmark columns.
- Build metrics from disparate or cross-functional data sources: relational databases, business intelligence sources, Excel files, flat files, user-entered values, etc.
- Simplified metrics creation: use menus to define threshold ranges, benchmarks, data source definition, contact names, and URLs for contextual information.
- Centrally defined KPIs ensure a consistent version of the truth and priority for all users.
- Maintain historical data, scorecards, diagrams, and definitions in a central relational database.
- Guided analysis pathways put performance in context: link to live dashboards, business intelligence reports, SCM or CRM systems, or Web sites.
- Integrated business intelligence software let you analyze issues to the required depth.
- Integrated enterprise planning lets you recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance.
- Browser-based, zero-footprint environment minimizes training and maintenance.
- Single sign-on dialog box.
- Multilingual: metrics can be populated in any language and then displayed in users' preferred language.
- Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.
- Strategy maps display key linkages and communicate goals.
- Impact analysis and process diagrams display cause-and-effect relationships.
- Build scorecards using leading and lagging indicators.
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